Orithena

First Appearance and Context

Orithena is recalled during the daily winding of the clock at Provener inside the Mynster. It is cited as a primordial gathering place of the theors and the setting of a midday ceremony beneath a great dome.

Structure and Features

The Halls of Orithena are described as marble columns rising from the black rock of Ecba and supporting a vast dome with an oculus. At midday, a shaft of light from the oculus passed over an analemma marked on the floor, forming the climax of the ceremony beneath the dome. The description suggests a monumental complex designed for celestial alignment and communal assembly.

Relationships and Functions

In very ancient times, theors gathered there to sing the Hylaean Anathem; leadership is attributed first to Adrakhones and later to Diax or one of his fids. After Orithena’s destruction, surviving theors undertook the Peregrination. Much later, elements of the old rite were adapted for mathic worship, and after the Reconstitution the aut was revived in a new form centered on winding the Clock. The modern liturgy at Provener preserves the memory of Orithena’s ceremony inside the maths.

Current Status

Orithena is presented as long-destroyed, known through tradition and liturgy rather than by living institutions. Its precise location and surviving remains (if any) have not been shown; it functions as a historical and ritual point of reference.

Summary:

An ancient center of learning remembered for the Halls of Orithena and a great dome ceremony at midday. It was destroyed long ago; its rites later informed mathic liturgy now practiced within the Mynster.

Known as:
OrithenaThe Halls of Orithena